A Time for Every Season

We've had out first snowfall of the year (November 1st/2nd), and it's only 2 or 3 inches.  It didn't even stick to the streets or sidewalks.  There are people who can't stand snow.  Me, I don't mind it in manageable amounts, meaning if I don't have to scoop it off the sidewalk or it involves very little shoveling, scooping, snow blowing I'm good.  I think it's very pretty and I don't even mind the cold.  In my opinion, I can always put more clothes on and be toasty.  That doesn't happen the other way around, when it's hot, there's only so many pieces of clothing you can take off before it becomes indecent or something you'll get arrested for.  I can always get warm, I can't always get cool, so I'm all for snow.  I haven't seen a really good blizzard in a long time - oh sure last year we had a few 3 foot drifts in spots, but I'm talking can't get out the door or do anything blizzard.  When I was little we had those occasionally. I remember some of the pictures where the drifts were to the top of the house and you'd have to scoop out of the house, or into the barn and it seemed like it took forever.  One year we had a bunch of yearling calves we had to dig out, they were buried in a seven foot drift.  That wasn't alot of fun either.  We could hear them, but man it was scary wondering if we were going to get them out in time.  We didn't lose any, but we did lose a bull a couple years later.  We knew he was missing we just couldn't find him because he'd frozen to the ground and couldn't move.  Needless to say he either froze to death or suffocated under the snow, maybe both, it was sad.  Helped me gain a new respect for winter weather.  My husband gives me just a little bit of grief over the winter weather kits I put in our vehicles.  They include blankets, hats, mittens, scarves, flashlights, reflective vests, granola bars, beef jerky, dried fruit to name a few things.  They go in the vehicles at the first prediction of snow and they stay there until the snow is long gone.  Precautionary measures - because we travel alot in some remote areas and you never know that kit just might save our lives someday.  I am very aware that winter is one of the seasons that God designed and put into place, it is a time of rest for the plants and the earth.  The winter snows refuel our streams, rivers, and lakes.  I appreciate snow for many reasons, but I also have a guarded respect for it.  In Ecclesiastes 3:1 it says, "there is a time for every season." Now is the season of cold temperatures and snow.